Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements

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D. Appleton, 1886 - Earthquakes - 363 pages
 

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Page 117 - According to the observations made at Lisbon, in 1837, by Mr. Sharpe, the destroying effects of this earthquake were confined to the tertiary strata, and were most violent on the blue clay, on which the lower part of the city is constructed. Not a building, he says, on the secondary limestone or the basalt was injured.

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